Bill Tucker, CNN: It's a simple, straight-forward statement from the campaign trail in Powder Springs, Georgia. When it comes to getting along in America, presidential candidate Barack Obama has these thoughts on immigration and English.

Obama: I agree with that, but, understand this, instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English -- they'll learn English -- you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish. You should be thinking about how can your child become bilingual.Tucker: Critics of the senator's statement point out the real problem isn't Americans learning another language... In fact, America's the most multilingual country in the world. Literally hundreds of languages are spoken here, and the linguistic diversity is not limited to urban areas. It's geographically widespread, which is why proponents of making English the official language argue it's important that one language be the official language of communication.Jim Boulet, English First: It appears from Barack's statement that the only people expected to learn another language are English- speaking children. They're to be required to learn Spanish.Watch Spanish / US English / Drug WarTranscript

One News NowMcCain, Obama, and La Raza...San Diego will host La Raza's national convention July 12-15. Senator Obama is scheduled to address the group on July 13, with Senator McCain on tap the next day. Rick Oltman, national spokesman for Californians for Population Stabilization, doubts either candidate will say anything against La Raza's agenda that favors illegal immigration....

Dana Gabriel -- OpEdNews.comNAFTA and SPP, securing U.S. access to Canadian resourcesPart of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) objectives include further removing barriers and securing access and control to Canadian resources. NAFTA has already seemingly granted the U.S. unlimited access to Canadian energy. The SPP will bring about the further deregulation and privatization of Canadian institutions.

GovExec.comFeds place order for mobile radar systems for use on borderThe federal government has placed a $4 million order for unmanned mobile surveillance system units with ICx Technologies to be deployed along the southern border of the United States. -- ICx Technologies' Cerberus unit is a fully integrated mobile surveillance tower that combines advanced, high-resolution radars with thermal and imaging cameras...

Sacramento BeeCalifornia state worker probed in ID security breachA state worker recently married to a member of the Mexican Mafia who is in Corcoran State Prison for a gang murder is herself under investigation for downloading more than 5,000 names, addresses and Social Security numbers belonging to Department of Consumer Affairs staff, The Bee has learned...

San Diego Union-Tribune39 congressmen ask accounting in agent's deathTucson, Az. -- Thirty-nine congressmen wrote President Bush and Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Thursday asking if the government had asked Mexico to extradite a now-freed suspect in a U.S. Border Patrol agent's death. -- Justice Department officials have refused to say what steps they may have taken to have Jesus Navarro Montes returned to this country...

American Border Patrol Photo of the dayMike Christie of American Border Patrol checks performance of "sundog" camera - part of Virtual Vigilance border surveillance system.

Argus Leader -- Sioux Falls, South DakotaIllegal immigrant indicted for returnA Honduran man who has been deported four times in 10 years was indicted Tuesday in U.S. District Court for illegally re-entering the country. -- Victor Manuel Reyes-Chavez, 52, was arrested June 24 outside the Dakota Beef processing plant in Howard...

The Hill -- WashingtonGiuliani: Obama capturing 'an anti-American feeling'Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-N.Y.) said Thursday that Barack Obama is capturing 'an anti-American feeling' responding to Obama telling a town hall audience in Georgia that their children should learn to speak Spanish. -- "Well this is why he is a popular candidate in Europe, because there is such an anti-American feeling and he is sort of capturing that," Giuliani said...

El Paso Times Buried body, 8 new slayings add to rising toll in JuárezStreet shootings, a buried body and a narco-message were parts of at least eight homicides Tuesday and Wednesday in Juárez, Chihuahua state police said. -- The decomposing body of an unidentified man, whose hands were bound behind his back, was found Tuesday buried in the Senderos de San Isidro area, police said.

Northwest Arkansas Times Mexico? Really?Studies like the one performed last year by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation - it found that about half the state's Hispanic population is here illegally - is exactly the sort of thing that has turned scores of residents into activists scouring the countryside for registered voters to sign onto a petition supported by Secure Arkansas...

"Couch Patrol" launches booking systemUsers of American Border Patrol's Virtual Vigilance system can now schedule cameras online. Custom software developed by ABP allows those in the system to enter their user name and password and book time on the camera systems without going through ABP. "This camera booking management system completes the circle of a total system for citizen border surveillance," said Glenn Spencer, head of ABP.

KOVR-TV -- West SacramentoAnti-illegal immigration sign irks someSacramento, Calif. -- A local man is drawing criticism after driving around town with an anti-illegal immigration sign mounted on a trailer. -- The sign reads "Build the wall, deport them all," and Davi Rodriguez says it's part of an attempt to educate residents on illegal immigration...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers Latest news from south of the borderIn an interview by regional correspondent Jonathán Tapia with Nuevo León ex-gubernatorial candidate Mauricio Fernández Garza, the National Action Party (PAN) member assured that drug cartels offer financing to all gubernatorial candidates in all states....

Associated Press Poultry plant manager charged in immigration probeColumbia, SC -- A manager at a Greenville poultry factory under federal investigation was arrested Wednesday and charged with telling employees to use falsified immigration documents, according to court filings. -- Elaine Crump, listed as personnel manager for House of Raeford Farms, was arrested a day after she was indicted...

KOLD-TV -- TucsonDeputies: Bomb detonated; suspected illegal aliens fleeAn unexploded shell led to the evacuation of a south Phoenix recycling plant Wednesday. -- Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies responded to the scene yesterday afternoon after receiving a tip about a potential hostage situation at All Products Recycling Center...

KPHO-TV -- PhoenixReconquistas plan to disrupt Arpaio broadcastOpen border activists are encouraging protestors to disrupt Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's live radio broadcast from Tucson on Thursday. -- Coalicion de Derechos Humanos, a grassroots organization that opposes the "militarization" of the southern U.S. border, has demanded that Arpaio stay out of Pima County.

Boulder (Colorado) Daily CameraDeranged illegal alien sentenced to prisonA Boulder man arrested in April after police said he crashed a memorial gathering, grabbed the breast of a deceased woman's sister and showed her grieving mother pornographic pictures was sentenced today to one year in prison...

We Get E-MailMore Beltway shenanigans exposedAs I write this alert, the U.S. Senate is preparing to reauthorize legislation that has had a ticking time bomb secretly added to the bill. -- What is it? Its a new section of the bill that would rescind the current ban on allowing visitors into the United States who are infected with the deadly AIDS virus...

Brenda Walker -- VDare.comIs San Francisco at the tipping point?an Francisco has recently gotten overdue censure for being the nation's biggest psych ward masquerading as a city, showing what happens when left-wing border anarchists are allowed to run a major metropolis. -- The event which dismayed even the mainstream media: an expensive city program that protected illegal alien Honduran crack dealers...

Benton County (Arkansas) Daily RecordSecure Arkansas group to plan strategiesA proposed initiated act that would have prohibited illegal aliens from getting some services from the state of Arkansas failed to make it to the state ballot in 2008. But that doesn't mean the group that supported the proposal is disbanding, a Secure Arkansas official said Tuesday...